MSCI appoints Korea office head from Samsung AM

Index provider MSCI has hired Samsung Asset Management's public and pensions CIO Tae Jong Um to head its recently opened office in Korea. Um joined as managing director on April 2 to drive MSCI’s Korea business out of Seoul, where it launched late last year. He reports to Deborah Yang, managing director and the firm’s head of Asia ex-Japan, who was responsible for the Seoul office out of Hong Kong in the interim. Um had been CIO for public and pension investment and chief market…